A new trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 aired during tonight’s Thursday Night Football game/presentation. Presented as a North Korean propaganda film, it introduces the plot and the stakes.
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The trailer starts as a North Korean stylized propaganda film which devolves into the chaos of the invasion, as a young squad of South Korean soldiers fights to survive while the front lines collapse around them.
Set against longstanding tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the story feels ripped from the headlines as decades of geopolitical conflict come to a head. What begins as an invasion of the South quickly escalates into a global threat, pushing the Modern Warfare story into darker and more dangerous territory than ever before.
The Modern Warfare series has never shied away from controversial subject matter, and Modern Warfare 4 continues that tradition with a new setting, putting players directly on the ground as the war begins.